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Spring 2007
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Fall 2004
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The third meeting of the CGMA Advisory Board will be held at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN,
on October 9-10, 2004.
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Summer 2004
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The CGMA work-study students for Summer 2004 were Ellen Beilmann (Millsaps College),
Sarah Craft (DePauw University), Tulisha Jackman (Rhodes College), and
Kate McMahon (The College of Wooster).
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The CGMA summer work-study students gathered information for over 150 survey projects
in the Mediterranean Basin.
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Alpha testing began on the MAGIS (Mediterranean Archaeology GIS) Database Administration
pages.
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Data for the 150+ survey projects, collected by the work-study students, was entered
into the CGMA database.
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Spring 2004
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The CGMA work-study students for Spring 2004 were Aaron Orszag, The College
of Wooster, and Sara Robertson, DePauw University.
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Winter 2003-2004
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Co-PI's Rebecca Schindler and Pedar Foss presented a poster on CGMA at the
105th Annual Meeting of the AIA (Archaeological Institue of America)
in San Francisco, CA. As an unexpected bonus, the CGMA poster was awarded
a first place ribbon for best poster.
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Fall 2003
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Pedar Foss successfully taught the first CGMA undergraduate seminar at/from DePauw
University.
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The second meeting of the CGMA Advisory Board was held at DePauw University October 10-12, 2003.
(Minutes,
Schedule)
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The new location of the CGMA project website was announced at the Fall Board meeting,
namely cgma.depauw.edu. (Note that both CGMA
sites will be maintained until further notice.)
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The MAGIS Data Entry website was designed and developed and will soon be available
for public use.
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The MAGIS Spatial Search website was designed, and development on these pages has begun.
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Summer 2003
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The new server, aka. hecataeus, was configured and brought online.
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The initial design for the CGMA database was completed, and a
prototype for the data entry form was implemented using HTML, PHP,
JavaScript and MySQL.
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Plans were made for the CGMA undergraduate seminar to be taught for the
first time at DePauw University by Pedar Foss in the Fall 2003.
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We began making preparations for the Fall 2003 Board Meeting that will
take place at DePauw University, October 10-12.
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Co-PI's Rebecca Schindler and Pedar Foss presented a poster
on CGMA at the AIAC Congress in Boston, MA.
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Spring 2003
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CGMA purchased an Apple XServe (and XServe RAID) to administer and serve
the CGMA website, the MAGIS application, and the CGMA database.
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ITAP Associate, Alex Iliev, was interviewed and hired. Alex will be
working with the project programmer, Beth Wilkerson, beginning this
Summer and continuing through the 2003-04 academic year.
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The server equipment arrived and, with the help of DePauw's Information
Services personnel, was installed at DePauw University.
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Winter 2002-2003
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HTML prototype pages were created for MAGIS.
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It was decided that MAGIS would use the open source database management
system MySQL instead of Oracle.
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The Apple XServe and XServe RAID were selected as server and storage
options for CGMA.
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We applied for a DePauw ITAP (Information Technology Associates Program)
intership for the 2003-04 academic year.
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Fall 2002
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The CGMA website was "officially" released at
acad.depauw.edu/~cgma/.
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We began the process of assessing server requirements and researching
server options to determine what hardware would be purchased to serve
the CGMA website and web application.
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The initial draft of the CGMA software project document was composed,
reviewed and revised.
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A name was chosen for the CGMA web application, namely "MAGIS".
This is an acronym for Mediterranean Archaeology Geographical
Information System.
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Summer 2002
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The Advisory Board hired M. Beth Wilkerson as the programmer
for the CGMA project. Beth is an experienced computer programmer.
Most recently, she was employed as a senior software engineer/computer
consultant for Schlumberger-GeoQuest in which she specialized
in the development of complex 3D, interactive interpretation and
visualization systems. Although Beth is new to the GIS and Web
scene, she is anxious to gain new skills while leveraging from
her previous experience.
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The CGMA front end Web site was built and temporarily released
for beta testing. The site will be officially announced this Fall.
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Spring 2002
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded DePauw University a grant
for the establishment of a Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology.
(Press Release)
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The first meeting of the CGMA Advisory Board was held at DePauw University May 24-26, 2002.
(Agenda,
Minutes,
Schedule)
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Plans were made for the GIS Web application and the undergraduate seminar.
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